ADJOURN meaning: Pause proceedings to another time

We found 38 dictionaries that define the word adjourn:

General (29 matching dictionaries)

adjourn: Merriam-Webster
adjourn: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
adjourn: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
adjourn: Collins English Dictionary
adjourn: Vocabulary.com
Adjourn, adjourn: Wordnik
adjourn: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
adjourn: Wiktionary
adjourn: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
adjourn: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
adjourn: Infoplease Dictionary
adjourn: Dictionary.com
adjourn: Online Etymology Dictionary
adjourn: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Adjourn: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Adjourn: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
adjourn: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
adjourn: Rhymezone
adjourn: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
adjourn: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Adjourn: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
adjourn: FreeDictionary.org
adjourn: Mnemonic Dictionary
adjourn: TheFreeDictionary.com
adjourn: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
adjourn: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjourn: Merriam-Webster

Business (7 matching dictionaries)

adjourn: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
adjourn: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
adjourn: Law.com Dictionary
Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
adjourn: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

adjourn: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

adjourn: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ verb:  (transitive) To postpone.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To defer; to put off temporarily or indefinitely.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To end or suspend an event.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, formal, uncommon) To move as a group from one place to another.

Similar:

withdraw, retire, recess, break up, rejourn, retard, postpone, prolong, defer, put off, more...

Opposite:

resume, continue

Types:

recess, sabbatical, furlough, leave of absence, time off, more...

Phrases:

adjourn to, opposite of adjourn, more...

Adjectives:

french, other, senate, page, better, american

Colors:

gray, charcoal, taupe, beige, olive, more...